Guide: SABI Informa
SABI is Moody’s (formerly Bureau van Dijk) database of companies in Spain and Portugal, developed in collaboration with INFORMA D&B, covering approximately 2.9 million Spanish companies and 900,000 Portuguese companies.
It allows users to locate, analyze, and compare companies using standardized financial statements, ratios, ownership links and groups, executives and contacts, brands, news, and M&A transactions, with tools for advanced segmentation, charts, alerts, and exporting.
- Historical and standardised financial information; ratios and comparisons by sector and peer group.
- Corporate governance: ownership, corporate structures, beneficial owners, directors and contacts.
- Corporate events: M&A (deals and rumours), news and market data; for Spain, access to scanned images of filings and audit reports.
- Advanced searches using multiple criteria (activity, location, size, financial variables, etc.); customisable lists, charts and alerts.
- Data export (for academic analysis and internal projects) with download limits subject to institutional licence.
SABI contains detailed information on companies in Spain and Portugal and covers:
- Companyies’ financial information (standardized and historical financial statements).
- Trademarks (for Spanish companies only).
- Financial strength indicators.
- Directors and contacts.
- Stock market data for publicly traded companies.
- Original tax returns / scanned images (for Spain only).
- Detailed corporate structures (corporate trees and beneficial owners).
- Market studies.
- Company and business news.
- M&A deals and rumors.
- Maps and cartographic analysis.
- Audit reports(for Spain only).
With SABI, you can:
- Assess a company’s financial strength.
- Search for companies that match your criteria, including size, industry, and location—you can combine hundreds of criteria.
- Find all companies within the same corporate “family” and visualize complex organizational structures in diagrams. This unique dataset includes both domestic and international ownership information.
- Gather complex company data, including background information, financial history, as well as relevant news, agreements, and M&A rumors.
- Analyze a company in relation to its peer group.
- Display your results in charts to help you interpret and present your research.
- Monitor companies and peer groups of interest using SABI’s flexible alerts.
- Export your results for analysis or business development projects.
- Integrate SABI data into your own databases, CRM system, or spreadsheet to learn more about your clients and prospects.
- Compare groups of companies.
SABI is easy to use and allows you to search for company information quickly. You can use SABI for a variety of business challenges:
- General financial research.
- Procurement and supplier risk management.
- Academic research.
- Professional practice – SABI is used by many accountancy firms for business development and consultancy.
- Compliance, KYC and due diligence.
- Business development, CRM data management and enrichment [please note that the IQS licence permits academic use (non-commercial)].
- Corporate finance.
- Credit analysis and risk management.
SABI is available for academic, teaching and research purposes. External professional or commercial use, or the redistribution of data outside the terms of the licence, is not permitted.
Please always respect to the download limits and the academic purpose of the institutional subscription.